[sword-devel] GlobalOptionFilter=UTF8GreekAccents

DM Smith dmsmith at crosswire.org
Mon Mar 17 17:06:17 EDT 2025



> On Mar 17, 2025, at 4:01 PM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
> 
> That is, if search success depends on the specificity of whether accents or points are enabled, you're probably doing something wrong.

Absolutely.

What we are discussing is whether an apostrophe should be stripped out or not. The apostrophe on the keyboard is U+0027. The apostrophe in the Greek is recommended to be U+2019. They look nearly the same. There are a few other Unicode apostrophes that have the same appearance.

If the apostrophe isn’t stripped out, then the user input and the text have to agree on which of the several it is. There is no way for the end user to know which. I end up copying from the text to make sure I have the right one.

I believe the same filter that turns on and off the display of accents is used for searching. David is suggesting that the filter is taking out legitimate level 2 quotation marks from the display when it shouldn’t. I’m suggesting that it needs to remove them for the sake of the search.

DM
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